Museum exhibit /Building of a former barracks for special settlers in the settlement of Maiak. Photograph.
The building of a former barracks for special settlers in the settlement of Maiak (now within the limits of the town of Anzhero-Sudzhensk in Kemerovo oblast'), to which deportees – German labour army workers– were transferred in the 1930s and 1940s. The photograph is kept in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum. (Photo early 1990s) 
 
 
 
 
Thematic indexDeportation
 
Thematic indexInternal Exile and Special Settlements
 
Thematic indexLife in Captivity/
 
Date and place of creationBeginning of the 1990s. Anzhero-Sudzhensk town/ Kemerovo Region
 
MaterialsPhotographic paper
 
Description of exhibitA black-and-white image of a single-storey log-built building with a pitched roof. A single-storey log-built construction with a flat roof butts on to the building. The house is surrounded by a low board fence. There are two trees in front of the house.
 
State of preservationundamaged
 
Detailed annotationThe photograph depicts the building of a former barracks for special settlers in the Maiak [Lighthouse, Beacon] Settlement. In the 1930s and 1940s special settlers (German labour army workers) were sent to the Maiak Settlement (nowadays within the limits of Anzhero-Sudzhensk).
Photograph provided by Museum staff.
 
Web page?Yes
 
 
Museum exhibit /Building of a former barracks for special settlers in the settlement of Maiak. Photograph.